Nguyen Phu Trong

Nguyen Phu Trong (14 April 1944-) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 19 January 2011, succeeding Nong Duc Manh.

Biography
Nguyen Phu Trong was born on 14 April 1944 in Hanoi, French Indochina to a family of poor peasants. In December 1968, he joined the Communist Party of Vietnam after graduating from the Vietnam National University with a degree in philology. Nguyen served as editor-in-chief of a paper, and he later became a theorist in the communist party. In January 1994 he became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and on 26 June 2006 he was elected as Chairman of the National Assembly. His highest office was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the de facto head-of-state of Vietnam, which he was granted on 19 January 2011 and to which he was reelected on 27 January 2016.